Happy Fourth of July!

It's a holiday, so I'm kinda taking the day off today.

Well, unless you count all of the yard work I did.  Or the cooking.  Or the baking.  Or the stuff I still have to cook and bake.  Plus, there's the clean-up after the cooking and the baking and-

Okay, well, I'm taking a day off from posting on the blog, unless you count this post I'm currently typ-

...so, yeah, here's the tiny blog post.

Happy 4th, everyone!

Let's Talk: Drinking

Today I overheard someone lament the days of yore when their consumption of alcohol was, apparently, much higher than it is now.  There was moment of pining for the old days, of overconsumption to the point of "blacking out and not remembering it the next day."

Inside my head, I was thinking "That's probably the saddest thing I'm going to hear all day."  Well, right now it's 6:15 in the evening and, so far, it still is.

Now, I don't frown at drinking in general.  I'm mostly a social drinker, I'll have something when other people are having something.  I don't do much in the way of beer or ale, but I like drinks with vodka, rum, gin, and other alcohols in them.  I've mastered some really great techniques for martinis, margaritas, and other mixed drinks, and apparently I make one of the best Tequila Sunrises a few people I know have ever had.

But drinking and I have a weird connection, and I think it's influenced how I've looked at people who do overconsume.